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Re: Back to Firefox?

Alex Hutton — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:49:09 -0000

I switched. The aesthete in me had to get "Firefoxy" to make the widgets look less "Motif".

I miss a few things with one complaint:

1.) Clicking on what should be an RSS icon in the URL bar (like Safari) brings up "Live bookmarking". I just want feeds to register with NetNewsWire (like they do in Safari).

2.) Stability, it doens't blow up on crappy javascript like Safari, but the OS X build "feels" less stable once you start loading all these cool extentions.

3.) SPELLCHECK!

4.) Crappier Popup blocking

My big complaint? Processor usage. I have a 1.5ghz powerbook, and Firefox can peg me pretty easily.

The nice parts:

Extentions.

It seems faster.

Being a little part of the Firefox "revolution".

Re: Back to Firefox?

Tim — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:50:44 -0000

Well, on the windows front at least, FF 1.5 is shaping up really well. There's one feature that made the transition from 1.0 to 1.5rc all worthwhile.

The ability to move tabs. That's right. It seems intuitive that once you have tabs you should be able to move them around and re-order them, but until 1.5, you had to find a special extension to do it for you.

Until 1.0 came out, there was a *great* extension to do it, but afterwards, you had to use an extension that did it but had "extra features" that tried to replace another extension (Tabbrowsing preferences), and did a rather crappy job of it.

It seems like a simple pleasure, but I'm glad it's been incorporated into the main FF build. Maybe my other favorite extensions will be incorporated in time as well!